diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 2ce0f5f3946..00000000000
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-# Exclude everything because we expect users to mount this dir as a volume,
-# so none of this repos' content should be part of the docker build context.
-*